Playing instruments ...

[musashi]

This a coded skill or up to a person to emote?

[Nyr]

This is a roleplayed skill.

[musashi]

I am so buying a guitar in game   

[Malken]

I am so buying a guitar in game   

Works better if you take one length of sinew and jab it in the eye of an Elkros magicker and stick the other end of it to your wooden guitar.

[FuSoYa]

All this time I've been trying to twink out my mandolin skills.... shit.

Brandon

[musashi]

I just have to say ... one of the key points that puts Armageddon above any other mud is the presence of guitars. Not just frickin lutes.

[Qzzrbl]

We should have bagpipes...

[Xio]

We should have bagpipes...

QFT

[musashi]

We should have bagpipes...

Your avatar frightens me ...

[Yam]

TECHNO VIKING

[RogueGunslinger]

TECHNO VIKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to app this character.

The muscle-bound, goatee-braided man dances jerkily down the street to a funky house beat, an entourage of commoners follows him, some dancing as well.

[Qzzrbl]

 

I would follow you over even the Shield Wall if you did this.

[Tisiphone]

IG Techno Viking cult. GO!

[Xio]

TECHNO VIKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to app this character.

The muscle-bound, goatee-braided man dances jerkily down the street to a funky house beat, an entourage of commoners follows him, some dancing as well.

Sonofagun beat me to it!

[spawnloser]

(eyeing the derailers with disdain) Ahem... returning to the question at hand...

This a coded skill or up to a person to emote?

Many instruments have a way to make them do something without you emoting it, but I never use such a function so I am not sure if it is the 'use' command... however, I think it is.

Now, normally, this is up to the person to emote.  However, unless your character has a DAMNED good reason to start off as a virtuoso, don't emote them playing perfectly.  It isn't a coded skill, but you and I both know that it is a skill... and to use mud terms, would be called a 'virtual skill.'  Good roleplaying would have your character not be perfect at all instruments straight out of the gate.  Maybe good at one, but still not perfect, while being tolerable at best with the rest... so you roleplay practicing with these other instruments, etc etc ad nauseum pork chops.  Eventually the character can become a master bard.  Yay!  Yeah, just don't start with the perfection of a master bard, like most people do... please, just don't do it.

Oh, and another thing... please don't make your character the epitome of grace and beauty either, just because you're a bard.  Most bard characters are, to use a term I do really dislike using, F-me's... male or female.  They are nearly all beautiful, graceful and put on more airs than nobles.

Seriously, play a bard that makes mistakes when singing/playing/dancing.  Play a bard that makes judgment errors, playing the wrong song for the crowd... get boo'd off stage once.  It's fun.

I once played a bard that was so much fun... a mutant, magicker bard in Allanak.  I intentionally made errors, playing songs that people wouldn't like because this character thought people should like the song whether they actually did or not.  It was terribly fun, really.

[musashi]

I don't play a bard, I just want to play cowboy songs when I'm camping in the grasslands 

[spawnloser]

Even better.  You're not a bard, so don't play your guitar perfect.